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This is correct but it changes the question to: Does the human ear/brain prefer more or less information? Judging from what usually turns out to be the most popular music (sells the best, is most requested, has the largest audience - and this is independent of genre, by the way), I would posit that we (because of our conditioning, our wiring, whatever) prefer music with only small amounts of information. On Dec 3, 2004, at 9:46 AM, burnett@pobox.com wrote: > Regarding Rick's long and interesting discussion on looping, exact > copies, > and small randomness "livening up" a repetitive pattern: as I remember > things, one tenet of information theory (as I learned it) is that the > more > of the content of a message that you are able to predict, the less > information that message contains. So predictability is inversely > correlated with information. So even slight variations in a repetitive > sequence raise the level of information. > > hmm, > Steve B > Phasmatodea http://www.phasmatodea.net/ > Subscape Annex http://www.subscapeannex.com/ > > -- | Michael A. Firman | maf@mlswebworks.com | http://www.mlswebworks.com